Potential Titles: Grow
Jul. 9th, 2010 07:13 pmBut by degrees they grew less bright - "Abroad"
Flames growing into chrome strips - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
We grow our own religion - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"
A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Pomegranates growing from Pompeiian ash - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
The blade of touch grows too keen - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Furrowed field grown cement waiting for seed - Lewis Alexander "Tanka II" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Grown weary of dust and decay - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Her Cerberus grew far more heads than most - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Growing up in a double tyranny - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Grown quiet from fleeing - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Plant the strange seed to see how it grows - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Neither grafted nor grown, neither gather'd nor blown - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
And the warm glow grew deeper - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Grow flowers with your lungs - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Monet grew his gardens - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Growing with purple or with gold - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Growing up to be a ghost - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
Grows young with wonder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Grown tired of shepherd's fare - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
Grown from seeds of optimism - Mary Jo Bang "Cafe Edgar"
A brother grown bigger by another name - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"
Narcissus and the tulip growing wild - Maurice Baring "Italy"
Grows querulous with unseen cats - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
My ghosts are growing restless - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Secured the growing of the seed - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
of years grown thick as forest trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
A seed cannot grow in the heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"
In their gardens grow the rue - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garden"
Growing in the garden of Despair - Ardelia Maria Barton "Seek for the Good in Life"
Without it pumpkins will not grow - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
The branches growing from my teeth - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
What still grows in winter - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
Now you are prouder grown than Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
The pushing of our growth - Gwendolyn Bennett "To Usward"
During the years we grew tired trying not to die - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
Each poison growing in a forest - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Grow from cinder and stinking ash - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
When despair for the world grows in me - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Which scarcely stir the growing grain - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Thick oaks grow on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Now the ferns have grown tough - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
Where each generation of growth destroys the last - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
Grown familiar with the paths of sin - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
And sorrow grows familiar - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Growing in a thousand creeks under her ground - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"
Grew wedded to their unseen galaxy - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
These brave plants grew just for me - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Medieval manuscripts where everyone important grows a halo - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Only see a garden growing upwards - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
Growth of the ancient atoms - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Coffee growing cold between us - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
In the distants Savannahs a talisman grows - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
White crosses grow larger in their trinities - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
Grew pale toward a morning of sun - Witter Bynner "This Man"
Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
And trample the rice that grows wild on its brink - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
With every stone it swallows, the ocean grows - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
A golden shield of growing span - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Who wake with confused murmur growing - Edward Carpenter "The Evernew"
Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
May grow to fuller knowledge - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
From herbs grown in coffee cans - Ana Castillo "These Times"
We do not grow more kind - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
By every path the leaves of healing grow - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
The growing light rearranging your voice - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
Persevered to grow abundant - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Save that the sky grows darker - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
i am grown old and full of days - Lucille Clifton "dancer"
Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"
For the path is grown with rue - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Liberal growth demands untempered heat - William Cory "Amavi"
And hoarse had grown the whip-poor-will - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Feel the mountains grow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
The smile that grows all cold and strange - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The year, a spendthrift growing old - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
To will those gossamer embryos into growth - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"
And find his feet growing roots - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Beside the river grows starry-eyed forget-me-not - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Delight that was is grown disaster fell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
And Caesar into Cincinnatus grew - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Notch'd with the growth of centuries - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Fir trees growing in flood water - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
More idols are growing in the night - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"
Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A continuously growing silence - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
With the desire of growing lilacs - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"
Grew as I pursued - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXVII: Lost Joy"
I'll show you the apples that grow on the tree - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Grew rich with vanilla - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Earth's complaint grows hushed - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The walls of flesh grow weak - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"
And watch the quiet furrows grow - John Drinkwater "Plough"
Camels and goats grown thin - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"
The paradise of memories grows ever fainter - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Where the ancient cedar grows - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Where the waterlilies grow - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Stubborn things that grow beyond of time - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
A new habitat waited to grow with us - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
In her house of dreams she grew - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
Grows nothing but my thorn - Eleanor Farjeon "For Joan"
My prescriptions grown old - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Grows the dandelions in the gutter - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
And my shadow grows deeper than blood - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
That without planting grow - "Flora: a Vision"
Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Have grown a child of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Colder grown by force or art - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]
Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
Beyond my husband there are strange trees growing - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Bidding earthly sounds grow dumb - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
The sheltered places where the violets grew - Fanny Forrester "Spring in the Alley" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.21-v.I, 24 May 1884]
that grow more luminous with exposure to the day - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Grew still with silent worship - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sent to school to grow impertinent - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
the candles' glow grows rusty - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
In the garden of my shame growing roses - Andrea Gibson "Bad at Love"
Grown roots and found strength - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
A tangled wilderness of fair growth - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
Where many a garden flower grows wild - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"
And forget to grow old - "The Golfer's Garland"
Grow a garden in the storm drain - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
We shall grow free of heart - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Of things grown magic in the mind - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Of islands where the lotus grows - Tom Hall "One Wish"
Growth rings of iron, flint and bronze - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
Though pity's cheek grow pale - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Grown dull through many waiting days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"
A growth to meet decay - Robert Herrick "To Daffodils"
Until my frailties had to merits grown - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
The hours of growing restlessness - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Grown on the winter's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Red poppies grown with corn - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Strawberries under the chestnuts grow - William D. Howells "Elegy on John Butler Howells"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"
Might grow in glory - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
I was the tiny monster growing inside her - Mark Irwin "Monster"
Starves while growing Roses in a Cabbage Lot - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Making a livid shadow grow - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Grow at the pace of our own hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
With autumn grows on red ripe apples - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Grow old to face east - Fady Joudah "Canopus"
Grown over with brier and thorn - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 1" transl. by Burton Watson
When the ways are growing dark - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Your hearts grew sick with hope deferred - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
On the bright steel, great spots of rust had grown - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Half a century's silent growth - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
As the autumn peaches grow - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
Hill and sea grew to an altar - T.M. Kettle "On Leaving Ireland (July 14, 1916)"
On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Not even stones grow - Faye Kicknosway "He Has Been Threshed Out"
Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"
Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"
Time for me to practice growing old - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
With hearts grown grey - Archibald Lampman "Song"
Grow wild in your divine embraces - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
The shadowed woods that grow on the sky's mountains - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Unity in Space"
Pools where no herbs grow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"
Growing a rainforest between my ribs - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Bones grown through with dandelion - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Hatreds that have grown like poison ivy - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Where grief a shadow grows - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
When I grow sober after all this wine - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Her angles learned to grow some kind of sharpness - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Grow in happy abandon - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Grows up hidden in far-off rooms - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson
The fern and the bramble grew wild in the hall - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]
Arch by arch the blooming pathway grows - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"
Growing quietly on through drought and rain - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The wraith of winter, grown so pale - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
Where the first primroses grow - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Secret"
The vast and ever climbing shadow grow - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Grown in this body of aches and time - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Where the stalwart oak grew - Charles Mair "Untamed"
When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"
Grown so fond of paradox - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Grew more despairing of the Promised Land - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Grew my dreams thick through hot nights - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Grown old with sorrowing men - John Masefield "King Cole"
In the triple growth of bramble and hawthorn - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"
Change in hearts grown weary - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Away to where the musics grow - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
That trick a drought & grow - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
No branch of Reason's growing - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Uplands where gold violets grow - Helen M. Merrill "Sun-Gold"
Their echo growing deeper - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"
Each grown at such a price - Alice Meynell "A General Communion"
Grow divine by endlessness - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Let the world grow weeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"
Again to grow in twilight - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
Like a weed that grows to naught - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"
Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
That grows on mortal soil - John Milton "Lycidas"
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank - John Milton "Sabrina"
Rhododendra grow through stone - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Grew out of hell's fire - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Far and near silence grows populous - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Where no tree of freedom grows - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Even words grow thin - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Grown like the air in autumn - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Grew like a river in a downpour - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Grow thin as the tracks of gulls - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin
The churning genesis of glowing and growing stones - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XI" transl. by James Nolan
Watched the vegetable gods grow - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Earth's rumor grew in the leaves - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
Grow from geese to swans - "Nonsense"
Growing, expanding while collapsing - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author
The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"
Had to grow the dice of accounting - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"
Primroses grown crazy with sorrow - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"
Where these nettles grew nettles have always grown - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
Where healing dittany grows - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"
Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
The weeds that grow up spidery by the side - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Doesn't curve, doesn't break, doesn't grow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
grow bile and peaks of anger - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Longer grow the deepening shadows - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
The soul that grows in darkness - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
The moon shadow grows to sun loops - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Growing slight on tomorrow's meat - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
Citrus grows in the grove beneath my bed - Cait Weiss Orcutt "Single Kings of the Valley"
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Now wiser grown, I recognize each ass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
With illicit seeds they grow - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Where my illusions grow - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
When shadows grew long and slanted - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
Grown in the fat of our marrow - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"
Growing songs more delicious than your maps - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
The wind that blows where the poppy grows - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"
When I have grown a yard or so - Miriam Clark Potter "A Plaint"
Taproots growing down through treasure caverns - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
When the starry night grows silent - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Hiding where your debt grows - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Rarest fruits in that garden grew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Two Angels"
Grown tense with creation's desire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Suns and satellites grown cold - Herbert Randall "Rose of Plymouth"
Gossamer shrouds grow heavy - M. Regan "The Hollow"
Each cry dissolves into the next grown louder - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
How unstable the powers to which we grow attached - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"
Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
Grown from the desert's surge - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Test the calluses I've grown - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
To grow stars, start with moon dust - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
And hear the skylarks calling to a heart that's growing old - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"
Left always to be vicious and to grow - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
Grew pale beneath its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Growing so precisely redacted - David St. John "Generation"
How far his endless love had grown - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
To grow a garden on the ruins - Sanai "The Time Needed" transl. by Coleman Barks
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Grown with this growing age - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
My garden where the tulips grow - Virna Sheard "Lament"
And grow forgetful of its ancient fears - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Grow like shadows in the late sun - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"
Berries grown on the vines of night - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Though my soul with grief grew wild - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Grow ulcers from eating loneliness - Evan Gill Smith "The Cow Speaks to the Child"
Streets so bare they grow voices - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
In his chair of ease a thorn will grow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
i've grown tired of singing the blues - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
A sumac grows on the altar - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Our cosmos is growing into a bright castle - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Grass growing upside down in the dark - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"
Though the painting grows decayed - Jonathan Swift "Stella's Birthday. 1720"
Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"
Grown in gardens never owned - Carmen Tafolla "Marked"
Still slowly growing in memory of summer - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
Grown weary of the winds - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Do grapes grow on brambles or figs upon thorns? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Growing with rosemary and lavender - Edward Thomas "Old Man"
The throne sacred to oppression grown - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Grown tangible and true - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
That grow robustly to compete for sunlight - Elizabeth Torres "The Tree"
Grew brilliant in the tinsel glare - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"
And pain hath grown to power at length - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Grass grows in a stable - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
As the surge of radiance grows - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Grows sweet with peace - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
Grown to the fullest stature of the perfect soul - Rudolph Valentino "Remembrance (To M.O.)"
Does a growing oak keep lists? - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"
The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
That only grows in prison soil - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Of an architecture grown effete - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
So the hidden anguish of breaths grows here - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Crags where the purple heather grows - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Grew in my heart to its full fruition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
The marshes where cranberries grow - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"
A dark-abyss master grown old - Wang An-Shih "At the Shrine-Tower of Ch'an Master Lumen-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Crows grow faint in outland cold - Wang An-Shih "Climbing Up to Treasure-Master's Grave-Shrine" transl. by David Hinton
Grown old in mountain forests - Wang An-Shih "Inviting Integrity-Met to Visit" transl. by David Hinton
Where ancient roots still grow full and strong - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
For they grew in the mermaid's home - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Now the air grows tunneled, now the sky diminishes - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"
The thistle grew broader and higher - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
The feverfew my grandmother grew - Judy Patterson Wenzel "'Twas a Beautiful Day"
While the heaven of night grows - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Grows vacant as a memory - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
No matter what grows within - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Grow by swallowing others - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
That senseless atoms blindly grew into a world of light - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
What blooms on airy precipices grow - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Water growing out of water - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"
The night grows rough - W.B. Yeats "'I am of Ireland'"
Grown sad with its eternity- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
You're grown out of knowledge - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Grows harder by sullen degrees - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
To Iris grown resplendent - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
And now full-grown and gaunt they stalk me - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Grown-Up.
With his home-grown quality of dark - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
With the bitter twist of ingrown laughter - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"
Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
Amble by orchid-grown marshes - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Outgrow.
Overgrown.
Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"
Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"
While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"
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Flames growing into chrome strips - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
We grow our own religion - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"
A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Pomegranates growing from Pompeiian ash - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
The blade of touch grows too keen - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Furrowed field grown cement waiting for seed - Lewis Alexander "Tanka II" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Grown weary of dust and decay - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Her Cerberus grew far more heads than most - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Growing up in a double tyranny - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Grown quiet from fleeing - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Plant the strange seed to see how it grows - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Neither grafted nor grown, neither gather'd nor blown - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCIII: Plucking a Flower" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Thorns are growing at the house-door - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles
And the warm glow grew deeper - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Grow flowers with your lungs - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Monet grew his gardens - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Growing with purple or with gold - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Growing up to be a ghost - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
Grows young with wonder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Grown tired of shepherd's fare - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
Grown from seeds of optimism - Mary Jo Bang "Cafe Edgar"
A brother grown bigger by another name - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"
Narcissus and the tulip growing wild - Maurice Baring "Italy"
Grows querulous with unseen cats - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
My ghosts are growing restless - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Secured the growing of the seed - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
of years grown thick as forest trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
A seed cannot grow in the heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"
In their gardens grow the rue - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garden"
Growing in the garden of Despair - Ardelia Maria Barton "Seek for the Good in Life"
Without it pumpkins will not grow - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
The branches growing from my teeth - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
What still grows in winter - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
Now you are prouder grown than Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
The pushing of our growth - Gwendolyn Bennett "To Usward"
During the years we grew tired trying not to die - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"
Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"
Each poison growing in a forest - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Grow from cinder and stinking ash - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
When despair for the world grows in me - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Which scarcely stir the growing grain - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Thick oaks grow on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Now the ferns have grown tough - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
Where each generation of growth destroys the last - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
Grows tall as a granite house - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"
Grown familiar with the paths of sin - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
When Joy grew mad with awe - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"
And sorrow grows familiar - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Growing in a thousand creeks under her ground - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"
Grew wedded to their unseen galaxy - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
These brave plants grew just for me - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Medieval manuscripts where everyone important grows a halo - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Only see a garden growing upwards - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"
Growth of the ancient atoms - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Coffee growing cold between us - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
In the distants Savannahs a talisman grows - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
White crosses grow larger in their trinities - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
Grew pale toward a morning of sun - Witter Bynner "This Man"
Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
And trample the rice that grows wild on its brink - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
With every stone it swallows, the ocean grows - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
A golden shield of growing span - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Who wake with confused murmur growing - Edward Carpenter "The Evernew"
Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
May grow to fuller knowledge - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
From herbs grown in coffee cans - Ana Castillo "These Times"
We do not grow more kind - Willa Cather "Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep"
A thought grown stubborn in the mind - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
By every path the leaves of healing grow - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
The growing light rearranging your voice - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
Persevered to grow abundant - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Save that the sky grows darker - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
i am grown old and full of days - Lucille Clifton "dancer"
Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"
For the path is grown with rue - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Liberal growth demands untempered heat - William Cory "Amavi"
And hoarse had grown the whip-poor-will - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Feel the mountains grow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
The smile that grows all cold and strange - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The year, a spendthrift growing old - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
To will those gossamer embryos into growth - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"
And find his feet growing roots - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Beside the river grows starry-eyed forget-me-not - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Delight that was is grown disaster fell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
And Caesar into Cincinnatus grew - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Notch'd with the growth of centuries - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Fir trees growing in flood water - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
More idols are growing in the night - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"
Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A continuously growing silence - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
With the desire of growing lilacs - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"
Grew as I pursued - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXVII: Lost Joy"
I'll show you the apples that grow on the tree - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Grew rich with vanilla - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Hopes grown most sweet - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Earth's complaint grows hushed - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The walls of flesh grow weak - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"
And watch the quiet furrows grow - John Drinkwater "Plough"
Camels and goats grown thin - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"
The paradise of memories grows ever fainter - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Where the ancient cedar grows - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Where the waterlilies grow - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Stubborn things that grow beyond of time - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
A new habitat waited to grow with us - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
In her house of dreams she grew - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
Grows nothing but my thorn - Eleanor Farjeon "For Joan"
My prescriptions grown old - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Grows the dandelions in the gutter - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"
Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
And my shadow grows deeper than blood - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
That without planting grow - "Flora: a Vision"
Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Have grown a child of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Colder grown by force or art - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]
Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"
Beyond my husband there are strange trees growing - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Bidding earthly sounds grow dumb - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
The sheltered places where the violets grew - Fanny Forrester "Spring in the Alley" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.21-v.I, 24 May 1884]
that grow more luminous with exposure to the day - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Grew still with silent worship - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sent to school to grow impertinent - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
the candles' glow grows rusty - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
In the garden of my shame growing roses - Andrea Gibson "Bad at Love"
Grown roots and found strength - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
A tangled wilderness of fair growth - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
Where many a garden flower grows wild - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"
And forget to grow old - "The Golfer's Garland"
Grow a garden in the storm drain - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
We shall grow free of heart - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Of things grown magic in the mind - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Grows stronger each time we mourn - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Of islands where the lotus grows - Tom Hall "One Wish"
Growth rings of iron, flint and bronze - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
Though pity's cheek grow pale - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Grown dull through many waiting days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"
A growth to meet decay - Robert Herrick "To Daffodils"
Until my frailties had to merits grown - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
The hours of growing restlessness - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Grown on the winter's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Red poppies grown with corn - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Strawberries under the chestnuts grow - William D. Howells "Elegy on John Butler Howells"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Bent grass dared not grow - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"
Might grow in glory - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
I was the tiny monster growing inside her - Mark Irwin "Monster"
Starves while growing Roses in a Cabbage Lot - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Making a livid shadow grow - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Grow at the pace of our own hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
With autumn grows on red ripe apples - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Grow old to face east - Fady Joudah "Canopus"
Grown over with brier and thorn - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 1" transl. by Burton Watson
When the ways are growing dark - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Your hearts grew sick with hope deferred - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
On the bright steel, great spots of rust had grown - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Half a century's silent growth - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
As the autumn peaches grow - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
Hill and sea grew to an altar - T.M. Kettle "On Leaving Ireland (July 14, 1916)"
On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Not even stones grow - Faye Kicknosway "He Has Been Threshed Out"
Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"
Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"
Time for me to practice growing old - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
With hearts grown grey - Archibald Lampman "Song"
Grow wild in your divine embraces - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
The shadowed woods that grow on the sky's mountains - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Unity in Space"
Pools where no herbs grow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"
Growing a rainforest between my ribs - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Bones grown through with dandelion - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Hatreds that have grown like poison ivy - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Where grief a shadow grows - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
When I grow sober after all this wine - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Her angles learned to grow some kind of sharpness - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Grow in happy abandon - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Grows up hidden in far-off rooms - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson
The fern and the bramble grew wild in the hall - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]
Arch by arch the blooming pathway grows - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"
Growing quietly on through drought and rain - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The wraith of winter, grown so pale - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"
Where the first primroses grow - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Secret"
The vast and ever climbing shadow grow - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Grown in this body of aches and time - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Where the stalwart oak grew - Charles Mair "Untamed"
When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"
Grown so fond of paradox - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Grew more despairing of the Promised Land - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Grew my dreams thick through hot nights - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Grown old with sorrowing men - John Masefield "King Cole"
In the triple growth of bramble and hawthorn - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"
Change in hearts grown weary - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Away to where the musics grow - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
That trick a drought & grow - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
No branch of Reason's growing - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Uplands where gold violets grow - Helen M. Merrill "Sun-Gold"
Their echo growing deeper - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"
Each grown at such a price - Alice Meynell "A General Communion"
Grow divine by endlessness - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Let the world grow weeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"
Again to grow in twilight - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
Like a weed that grows to naught - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"
Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
That grows on mortal soil - John Milton "Lycidas"
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank - John Milton "Sabrina"
Rhododendra grow through stone - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Grew out of hell's fire - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Far and near silence grows populous - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Where no tree of freedom grows - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The buds of spring grew withered in his grasp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Even words grow thin - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Grown like the air in autumn - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Grew like a river in a downpour - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Grow thin as the tracks of gulls - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin
The churning genesis of glowing and growing stones - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XI" transl. by James Nolan
Watched the vegetable gods grow - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Earth's rumor grew in the leaves - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"
Grow from geese to swans - "Nonsense"
Growing, expanding while collapsing - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author
The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"
Had to grow the dice of accounting - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"
Primroses grown crazy with sorrow - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"
Where these nettles grew nettles have always grown - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
Where healing dittany grows - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"
Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
The weeds that grow up spidery by the side - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Doesn't curve, doesn't break, doesn't grow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
grow bile and peaks of anger - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Longer grow the deepening shadows - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
The soul that grows in darkness - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
The moon shadow grows to sun loops - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Growing slight on tomorrow's meat - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
Citrus grows in the grove beneath my bed - Cait Weiss Orcutt "Single Kings of the Valley"
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
That loved herb which best in Cuba grows - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Now wiser grown, I recognize each ass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Feed from this sadness and grow tall again - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
With illicit seeds they grow - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Where my illusions grow - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
When shadows grew long and slanted - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
Grown in the fat of our marrow - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"
Growing songs more delicious than your maps - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
The wind that blows where the poppy grows - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"
When I have grown a yard or so - Miriam Clark Potter "A Plaint"
Taproots growing down through treasure caverns - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
When the starry night grows silent - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Hiding where your debt grows - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Rarest fruits in that garden grew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Two Angels"
Grown tense with creation's desire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Suns and satellites grown cold - Herbert Randall "Rose of Plymouth"
Gossamer shrouds grow heavy - M. Regan "The Hollow"
Each cry dissolves into the next grown louder - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"
How unstable the powers to which we grow attached - Paisley Rekdal "Wild Horses"
Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"
Grown from the desert's surge - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Test the calluses I've grown - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
To grow stars, start with moon dust - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
And hear the skylarks calling to a heart that's growing old - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"
Left always to be vicious and to grow - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
Grew pale beneath its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
A madness grew into thundered battle cries - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"
Growing so precisely redacted - David St. John "Generation"
How far his endless love had grown - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
To grow a garden on the ruins - Sanai "The Time Needed" transl. by Coleman Barks
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Grown with this growing age - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
My garden where the tulips grow - Virna Sheard "Lament"
And grow forgetful of its ancient fears - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Grow like shadows in the late sun - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"
Berries grown on the vines of night - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Though my soul with grief grew wild - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Grow ulcers from eating loneliness - Evan Gill Smith "The Cow Speaks to the Child"
Streets so bare they grow voices - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
In his chair of ease a thorn will grow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
i've grown tired of singing the blues - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
A sumac grows on the altar - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Our cosmos is growing into a bright castle - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Grass growing upside down in the dark - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"
Though the painting grows decayed - Jonathan Swift "Stella's Birthday. 1720"
Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"
Grown in gardens never owned - Carmen Tafolla "Marked"
Still slowly growing in memory of summer - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
Grown weary of the winds - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Do grapes grow on brambles or figs upon thorns? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Growing with rosemary and lavender - Edward Thomas "Old Man"
The throne sacred to oppression grown - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Grown tangible and true - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
That grow robustly to compete for sunlight - Elizabeth Torres "The Tree"
Grew brilliant in the tinsel glare - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"
And pain hath grown to power at length - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Grass grows in a stable - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
As the surge of radiance grows - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Grows sweet with peace - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"
Grown to the fullest stature of the perfect soul - Rudolph Valentino "Remembrance (To M.O.)"
Does a growing oak keep lists? - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"
The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
That only grows in prison soil - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Of an architecture grown effete - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
So the hidden anguish of breaths grows here - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Crags where the purple heather grows - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Grew in my heart to its full fruition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
The marshes where cranberries grow - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"
A dark-abyss master grown old - Wang An-Shih "At the Shrine-Tower of Ch'an Master Lumen-Serene" transl. by David Hinton
Crows grow faint in outland cold - Wang An-Shih "Climbing Up to Treasure-Master's Grave-Shrine" transl. by David Hinton
Grown old in mountain forests - Wang An-Shih "Inviting Integrity-Met to Visit" transl. by David Hinton
Where ancient roots still grow full and strong - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
For they grew in the mermaid's home - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Now the air grows tunneled, now the sky diminishes - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"
The thistle grew broader and higher - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
The feverfew my grandmother grew - Judy Patterson Wenzel "'Twas a Beautiful Day"
While the heaven of night grows - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Grows vacant as a memory - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
When winter-time grows weary - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
No matter what grows within - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Grow by swallowing others - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
That senseless atoms blindly grew into a world of light - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
What blooms on airy precipices grow - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Water growing out of water - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"
The night grows rough - W.B. Yeats "'I am of Ireland'"
Grown sad with its eternity- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
You're grown out of knowledge - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Grows harder by sullen degrees - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
To Iris grown resplendent - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
And now full-grown and gaunt they stalk me - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
Grown-Up.
With his home-grown quality of dark - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
With the bitter twist of ingrown laughter - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"
Set thick with moss-grown boulders - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
Amble by orchid-grown marshes - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Outgrow.
Overgrown.
Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"
Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"
While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"
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